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Not believing in anything is also a religion .

Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share 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
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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

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