You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though 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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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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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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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