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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

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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

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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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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