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

Cesare Pavese

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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice

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