No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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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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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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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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There is something indecent in words .
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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