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“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“Well, you can't have heartbreak without love," Dan pointed out. "If your heart was really broken, then at least you know you really loved him.”
― Leila Sales, Past Perfect

“I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

“Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“La mia indipendenza, che è la mia forza, implica la solitudine, che è la mia debolezza.

Odio – come ho tante volte detto – l'indipendenza politica. La mia è quindi una indipendenza, diciamo, umana. Un vizio. Non potrei farne a meno. Ne sono schiavo. Non potrei nemmeno gloriarmene, farmene un piccolo vanto. Amo invece la solitudine. Ma essa è pericolosa.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il caos

“This evening out of boredom washed my hands three times in succession in the bathroom.”
― Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

“If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“I swear I couldn't love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.”
― Leo Christopher

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus

“Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale
e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad ogni gradino.
Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio.
Il mio dura tuttora, né più mi occorrono
le coincidenze, le prenotazioni,
le trappole, gli scorni di chi crede
che la realtà sia quella che si vede.

Ho sceso milioni di scale dandoti il braccio
non già perché con quattr'occhi forse si vede di più.
Con te le ho scese perché sapevo che di noi due
le sole vere pupille, sebbene tanto offuscate,
erano le tue.”
― Eugenio Montale, Satura, 1962-1970: Poems

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
― Cesare Pavese

“You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Collected Poems

“Imparerai a tue spese che nel lungo tragitto della vita incontrerai tante maschere e pochi volti.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Uno, nessuno e centomila - Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore

“Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“You laugh like a little child, but you think like a martyr.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“In sostanza chiedevo un letargo, un anestetico, una certezza di essere ben nascosto. Non chiedevo la pace nel mondo, chiedevo la mia.”
― Cesare Pavese, La casa in collina

“Si faccia una vita interiore, di studio, di affetti, che non siano soltanto di "arrivare", ma di "essere" - e vedrà che la vita avrà un significato.”
― Cesare Pavese

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Deep rivers run quiet.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“A burnt child loves the fire.”
― Oscar Wilde

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina