Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
CESARE PAVESEThings are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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