But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
CESARE PAVESEThe cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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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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