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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

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing 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
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself

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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