One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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