One 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.
CESARE PAVESEIn general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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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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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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