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.
CESARE PAVESEOne stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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