One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESEWhat world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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