Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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