If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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