Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEHuman imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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There is something indecent in words .
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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