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

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

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