Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
CESARE PAVESENot believing in anything is also a religion .
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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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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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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