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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Cesare Pavese

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young 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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World

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