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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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 PaveseCesare Pavese 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?
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Not believing in anything is also a religion .
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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I installed a skylight in my apartment, the people who live above me are furious!
Steven WrightSteven Wright Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
Clarence ThomasClarence Thomas Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Steven WrightSteven Wright Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas PaineThomas Paine
