Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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 only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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