For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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A 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.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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