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

Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
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
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection

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

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