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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

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
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

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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