Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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