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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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