But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
CESARE PAVESELessons are not given, they are taken.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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