Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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