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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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