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Don’t mix wine and women.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work

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