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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
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
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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 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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying

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