Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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There 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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Those 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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