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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

Cesare Pavese

We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
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 like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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