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Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition

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