Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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There is something indecent in words .
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