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

Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
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
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman

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

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