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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Cesare Pavese

You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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
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
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
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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