I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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