It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESEThe problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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