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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Cesare Pavese

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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