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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

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
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
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
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
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

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