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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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