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Cesare Pavese Inspirational Quotes (94)

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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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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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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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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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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