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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality

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