The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESEA man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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 commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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