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

Cesare Pavese

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge 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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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

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

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