All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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