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.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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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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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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