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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

Cesare Pavese

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World

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