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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Cesare Pavese

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
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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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
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

We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

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