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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

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
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
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

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