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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
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
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

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