There is something indecent in words .
CESARE PAVESEIdleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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.
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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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