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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

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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 corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge 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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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World

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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