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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

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner 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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
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
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

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

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