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Not believing in anything is also a religion .

Cesare Pavese

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
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
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

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