It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
CESARE PAVESEThere 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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