The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
CESARE PAVESEWe like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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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