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 PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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