A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
CESARE PAVESEYou will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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