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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.

Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
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
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
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
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself

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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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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