What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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