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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

Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember

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