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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Cesare Pavese

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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 you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

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