Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.