The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESEThere 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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