Cesare Pavese quotes

We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese)
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. View quote
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The only joy in the world is to begin. View quote
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. View quote
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. View quote
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Love is the cheapest of religions. View quote
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. View quote
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. View quote
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. View quote
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to life. View quote
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. (Cesare Pavese)
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. View quote
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. View quote
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man. View quote
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. View quote
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live. View quote
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it. View quote
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. View quote
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No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern. View quote
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. View quote
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. (Cesare Pavese)
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. View quote
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We obtain things when we no longer want them. View quote
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. View quote
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. View quote
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