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.
CESARE PAVESERemember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know 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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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