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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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