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

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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

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

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