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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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 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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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 search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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