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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

Cesare Pavese

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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
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
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
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work

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