Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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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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