From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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