Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEThe closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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 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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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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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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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