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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.

Cesare Pavese

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
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
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
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
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.

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