Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A 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.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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