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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth

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