One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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