Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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