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Not believing in anything is also a religion .

Cesare Pavese

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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

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