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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESE

Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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
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
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

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