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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.

Cesare Pavese

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
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering

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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