Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESENo one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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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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