The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
CESARE PAVESEGreat lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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