The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESEThe only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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