Cesare Pavese on action
Cesare Pavese106 quotes“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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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 PaveseCesare Pavese What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Don’t mix wine and women.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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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