Short quotes

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Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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If it's true that we get used to pain, how is it that over the years we suffer more and more?

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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But the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The whole problem of life is this: how to break one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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It's called nostalgia, and it serves to remind us that, fortunately, we are also fragile.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The lesson is always the same: to dive in headfirst and know how to endure the punishment.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe in lies.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

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A great democracy must progress or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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How much pleasure is obtained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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A good life is one inspired by love and guided by intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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A symptom of approaching a nervous breakdown is believing that your work is tremendously important.