Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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