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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Cesare Pavese

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Activity Time
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Money Oneself
Don’t mix wine and women.
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One Liner Wine Woman
Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Love Lover Naked Sight
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
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
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
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
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
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself

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