Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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