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.
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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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