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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present

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