Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESENo one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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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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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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