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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

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing

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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