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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

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