The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
CESARE PAVESEThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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There is something indecent in words .
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