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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
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
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
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
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake

You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

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