Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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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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