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

Cesare Pavese

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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
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
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word

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

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