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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

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
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
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
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
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State

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