Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
CESARE PAVESEWriting is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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