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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

Cesare Pavese

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection

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