Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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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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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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