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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
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
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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

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