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

Cesare Pavese

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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
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
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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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide

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

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