Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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 man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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