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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
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
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
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Born Complete Mad Perfection
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Action Decision Reaction Repeat Result Time
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
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
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Destiny Discover Experience Life Ourselves Peace Search
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing

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