A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
CESARE PAVESEIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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