We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach 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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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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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