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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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

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