One must look for one thing only, to find many.
CESARE PAVESEWhen you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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