One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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