But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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There 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.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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A 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.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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