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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking

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