Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
CESARE PAVESEThere is something indecent in words .
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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