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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

Cesare Pavese

Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
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
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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