For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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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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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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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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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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