Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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 problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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