To know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESEA consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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 pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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