A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Cesare Pavese
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
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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.
Cesare Pavese
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Cesare Pavese
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare Pavese
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
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The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese
