Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEWhy 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?
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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