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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
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
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Affliction Age Old Reality
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
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
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
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
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

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