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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Cesare Pavese

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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

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