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.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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