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 PAVESEWhat we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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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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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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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 man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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