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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Acceptance Destiny Share Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself

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