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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

There is something indecent in words .

Cesare Pavese

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  The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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  A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

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  A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.

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  All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

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  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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  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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  Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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  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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  Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

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  A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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  In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.

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  The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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  What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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  Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

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

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  We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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