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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

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

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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