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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Cesare Pavese

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
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
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
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
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

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