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

Cesare Pavese

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide

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

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