What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
CESARE PAVESEHuman imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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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.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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