Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You dont remember days, you remember moments
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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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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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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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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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Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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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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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.