Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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