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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.

Cesare Pavese

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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing

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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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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