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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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

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