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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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