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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

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