You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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