Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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In 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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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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