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

Cesare Pavese

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
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
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 cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Beginning Heart Night Suffering
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
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
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work

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

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