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

Cesare Pavese

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom

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