But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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