The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
CESARE PAVESEHere’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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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 only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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