Don’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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There is something indecent in words .
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