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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Cesare Pavese

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
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 whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide

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