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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Death Disturb Repose
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Care God Love People Religion
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
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
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Action Disappear Fall Quiet Submission Suicide
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Brutal Man Slow Time Willing
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing

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