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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

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself

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