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 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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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