Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESENot believing in anything is also a religion .
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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