The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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There is something indecent in words .
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