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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing

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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