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 only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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There is something indecent in words .
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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