"But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever."

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Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.57, Transaction Publishers

Cesare Pavese

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“We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.”
“The passions of love ignite, the emotions of love kindle, but the actions of love set the heart ablaze.”
“It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.”
“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
“This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.”

Source : "Rickey Henderson A Steal for the Mets" by Tim Marchman, www.nysun.com. July 13, 2007.
“My label can mold me into whatever they want me to be. Even with my own style of music, it's pretty much universal. Anybody can listen to it and find something that they like on it. I never really got pressured to be a certain way.”
“Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.”
“Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.”

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