The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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There is something indecent in words .
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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