The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
CESARE PAVESELife without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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