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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World

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