Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESENo one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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