Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
CESARE PAVESEThe whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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