We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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There is something indecent in words .
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