Don’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEThings are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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