From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESENowadays, 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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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 man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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