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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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

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