One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into 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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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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