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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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