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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

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 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
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
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
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

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