The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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