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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese

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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
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
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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