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

Cesare Pavese

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
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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion

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