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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
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

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