The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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