You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEThe man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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 never remember days, only moments.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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