Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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