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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering 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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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