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.
CESARE PAVESETo avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is something indecent in words .
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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