Don’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEWhat is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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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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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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