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Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

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