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Cesare Pavese Inspirational Quotes (94)

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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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There is something indecent in words .
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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