Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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