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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

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
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself

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