Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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 care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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