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

Cesare Pavese

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
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
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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 world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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

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

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