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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End 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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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