The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESEA corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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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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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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