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Not believing in anything is also a religion .

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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
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
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing

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