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Cesare Pavese

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
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 whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem

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