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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.

Cesare Pavese

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
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
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound

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