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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Cesare Pavese

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself

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