To know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESEThere is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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