Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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