The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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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 want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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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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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 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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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