Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
Sabrina Carpenter
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
Abraham Verghese
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
George Bernard Shaw
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Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.
William of Conches
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Few men are controlled by reason, and few are pleased by a right purpose. The mob, rather, is led to what was plainly invented for oblivion of its cares. For it supposes that whatever serves its pleasure must also be linked to the happiness of the age. Therefore, let us grant the expenses, and not be forever giving from rational considerations. Sometimes it is useful to play the fool, and so control the joys the people long for.
Cassiodorus
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
Joseph Stalin
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Silence is also conversation.
Ramana Maharshi
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
