The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
CESARE PAVESENo one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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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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