We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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 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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