It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love. - Luigi Pirandello

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We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.

Luigi Pirandello

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

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Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

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Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

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Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

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We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

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