The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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