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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
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
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

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