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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.

Cesare Pavese

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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 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
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Darkness Evening Face Night Old Soft Talk Whisper Wound
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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
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
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
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself

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