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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

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
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 world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst

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