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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
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
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
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing

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