When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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There is something indecent in words .
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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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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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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