Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats … - Cesare Pavese

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If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

Cesare Pavese

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

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