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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember 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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

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