When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEOne does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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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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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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