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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

Cesare Pavese

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

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