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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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 search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
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 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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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

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