We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEGreat lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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