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 richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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