From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESEWriting is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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