What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
CESARE PAVESEIf it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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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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