The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
CESARE PAVESEHate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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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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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 commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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