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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.

Cesare Pavese

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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself

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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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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