The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
CESARE PAVESEThe slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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 only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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 must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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