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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
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
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
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 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
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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

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