Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEOne 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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