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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself

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