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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

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
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
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
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

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