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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
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 do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
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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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

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