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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Cesare Pavese

To know the world, one must construct it.
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Construction World
It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Alone Born Cry Death Point
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
We never remember days, only moments.
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Day Moments Remember
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Forget Life Memories Rich
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Account Act Private Remark Revenge Yourself
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
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Human Imagination Poor Reality
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

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