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

Cesare Pavese

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work

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

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