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Love is desire for knowledge.

Cesare Pavese

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Action Fools Himself Man Practice
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Memories Remember Reveal Time
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Comfortable Cry Injustice Wrong Yourself
You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Day Moments Remember 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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Art Believe Live Lying
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
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
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Hands Mouth Ready Willing
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Life Understand Young Yourself
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

Love is desire for knowledge.

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