You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
CESARE PAVESEHuman imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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 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 man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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