The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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