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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Cesare Pavese

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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 the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

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