There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
CESARE PAVESEA corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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There is something indecent in words .
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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