Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
CESARE PAVESEThose philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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But 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.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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There is something indecent in words .
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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