Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEThose philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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