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

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Himself Strong Weakness Woman
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
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
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Greatness Happiness Important Intensity Love Lover
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Body Hate Spirit
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
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
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
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself

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

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