Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESEA man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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