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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

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
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
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember

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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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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