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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

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain

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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