Cesare Pavese Quotes
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Love is desire for knowledge.