Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
CESARE PAVESEThe slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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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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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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