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

Cesare Pavese

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
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
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong 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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound

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