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Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself

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