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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel 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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

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