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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
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

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