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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.

Cesare Pavese

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
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
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
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
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
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
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

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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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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