I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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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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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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