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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
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
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection

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