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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve

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