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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.

Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

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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