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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself

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