Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
CESARE PAVESEBut 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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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The 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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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