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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

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