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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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 only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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