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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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
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
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
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
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
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
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman

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