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.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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