To know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESEMisfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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