Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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 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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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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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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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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