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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
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 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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
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
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
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
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

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