To know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESEIt is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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