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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

Cesare Pavese

Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake

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