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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

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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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 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
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
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

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

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