There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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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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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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