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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Cesare Pavese

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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 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
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

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

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