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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

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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 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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

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

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