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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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