Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The 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.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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