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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 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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
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 problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
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
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

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

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