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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
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
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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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

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