There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
CESARE PAVESEA decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Great 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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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.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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