Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESEThere 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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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