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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition Origin Sense Sin
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Body Death Wake
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Continue Ego Live Reason Thinking
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 world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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 do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves

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