We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEI spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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 act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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