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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Cesare Pavese

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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit

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