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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence 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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
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
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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

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