We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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