One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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The 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.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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