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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese

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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
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
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work

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