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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

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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge 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
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain

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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