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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

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
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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

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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