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

Cesare Pavese

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
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
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing 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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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