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

Cesare Pavese

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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

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