The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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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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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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