Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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