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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Cesare Pavese

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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

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