Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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 only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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