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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
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
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
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
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover

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