We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESETo avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
CESARE PAVESEGive me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
CESARE PAVESEWhen you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEWe never remember days, only moments.
CESARE PAVESEWe like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
CESARE PAVESEIn general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
CESARE PAVESEThe only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
CESARE PAVESEAll our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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