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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
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
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong

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