Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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