To know the world, one must construct it.
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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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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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