It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
CESARE PAVESEThe face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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