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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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 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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
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

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

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