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

Cesare Pavese

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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

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

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