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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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 must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

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