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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

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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 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
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

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