There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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?
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There is something indecent in words .
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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 the cheapest of religions.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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