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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

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
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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 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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

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