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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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 never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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