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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

Cesare Pavese

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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 man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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

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