No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
CESARE PAVESEOne must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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