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.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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