The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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