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

Cesare Pavese

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves

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