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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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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