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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

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
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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Generation Interest Problem Solve
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

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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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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