Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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