You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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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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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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