But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
CESARE PAVESEThe closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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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 joy in the world is to begin.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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