Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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 all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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There is something indecent in words .
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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