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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.

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
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember Yourself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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
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
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 is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Enjoyment Life Love Pain
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
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
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

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