The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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