We never remember days, only moments.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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 must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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