Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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