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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.

Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
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
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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 face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World

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