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.
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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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