The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is something indecent in words .
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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