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

Cesare Pavese

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight

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