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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

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