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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

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

Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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

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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