From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESEThe face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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