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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Cesare Pavese

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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

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