The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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There is something indecent in words .
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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