The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
CESARE PAVESEIn general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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