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 PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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 man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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