The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
CESARE PAVESEBut here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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