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.
CESARE PAVESEFrom someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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