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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

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
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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