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.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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