We never remember days, only moments.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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