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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Cesare Pavese

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 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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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