Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEA decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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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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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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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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