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.
CESARE PAVESELessons are not given, they are taken.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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