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.
CESARE PAVESEOne 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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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