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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth

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