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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

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