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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

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