If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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