If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
CESARE PAVESEA corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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