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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel 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
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

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