Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.