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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

Cesare Pavese

Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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

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