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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Addition Complication Live Mistake Right Work
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
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 the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Boy Growth Himself Man Philosophy Wisdom Youth
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Generation Interest Problem Solve
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Enjoyment Happiness Obsession Oneself
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
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
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
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

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