Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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