The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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