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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 like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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 corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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

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

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