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

Cesare Pavese

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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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

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

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