Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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