At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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.
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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.
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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.
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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