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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Cesare Pavese

But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Bright Fire Ideas Poetry Production Writing
Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
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
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World

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