Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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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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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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