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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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 here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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