When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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 like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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 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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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