Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEThe search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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