What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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There is something indecent in words .
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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