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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

Love is the cheapest of religions.

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