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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

But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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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