Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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