Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is something indecent in words .
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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