The real affliction of old age is remorse.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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