If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
CESARE PAVESEWe want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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