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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
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
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
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 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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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