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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
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
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself

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