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.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is something indecent in words .
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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