The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
CESARE PAVESEThose 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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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