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

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking 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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

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