It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEA dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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There is something indecent in words .
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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