Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
CESARE PAVESEWe care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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