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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cesare Pavese

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
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
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
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
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
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
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
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
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality

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