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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

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
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
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom

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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