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Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
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
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
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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