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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

Cesare Pavese

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
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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