We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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If 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.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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