The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
CESARE PAVESEWhat is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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 man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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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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There is something indecent in words .
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The 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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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