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

Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World 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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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

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

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