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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

Cesare Pavese

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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
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
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

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