The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
CESARE PAVESEOne 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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