It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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