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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying Recognition
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember

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