For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
CESARE PAVESEYou’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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