A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
CESARE PAVESEWe like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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