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.
CESARE PAVESE
A 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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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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