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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESE

Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
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 all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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