The real affliction of old age is remorse.
CESARE PAVESEYou’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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