Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
CESARE PAVESELife without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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 consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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