Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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