Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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 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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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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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There is something indecent in words .
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