The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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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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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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.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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