All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of 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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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