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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

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
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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
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
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
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Alive Happiness Misery
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking 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
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
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

You don’t remember days, you remember moments.

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