One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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