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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cesare Pavese

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 is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
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
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
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
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice

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