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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.

Cesare Pavese

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide

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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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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