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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

Cesare Pavese

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
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
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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 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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.

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