All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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