The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
CESARE PAVESEWe must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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