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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right 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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search

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