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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

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