We never remember days, only moments.
CESARE PAVESEBut here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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