We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESENowadays, 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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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