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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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

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