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.
CESARE PAVESEThere comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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 we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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