It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESEA consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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