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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.

Cesare Pavese

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
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
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake

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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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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