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.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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