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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

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