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.
CESARE PAVESEIt 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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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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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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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