Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.