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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Cesare Pavese

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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