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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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