Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
CESARE PAVESEEvery luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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There is something indecent in words .
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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