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

Cesare Pavese

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself

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

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

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