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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking

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