A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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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 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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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