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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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 man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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