There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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