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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
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 do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

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