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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 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
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
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search

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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