There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
CESARE PAVESEThere comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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