Cesare Pavese on insecurity
Cesare Pavese106 quotes“In 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.”
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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.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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