It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEThere is something indecent in words .
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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