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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
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
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature 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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
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
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World

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