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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.

Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
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
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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 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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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

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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