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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
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
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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

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