The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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