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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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 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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery

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