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.
CESARE PAVESEEvery luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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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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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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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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