Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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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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