Don’t mix wine and women.
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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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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