If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
CESARE PAVESEA 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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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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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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