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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Cesare Pavese

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
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
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 only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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

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