Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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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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