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.
CESARE PAVESEI 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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