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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

Cesare Pavese

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
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
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
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

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