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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence 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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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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

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