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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing

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