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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.

Cesare Pavese

There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
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
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing

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