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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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 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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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