There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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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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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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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 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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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.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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