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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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