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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

Cesare Pavese

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 only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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
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
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search

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