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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Cesare Pavese

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
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
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
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
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
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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