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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. — Cesare Pavese

You are like a cloud
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese

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

The only joy in the world is to begin. — Cesare Pavese

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. — Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. — Cesare Pavese

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. — Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. — Cesare Pavese

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone ... — Cesare Pavese

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism. — Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. — Cesare Pavese

Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new. — Cesare Pavese

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. — Cesare Pavese

Don't mix wine and women. — Cesare Pavese

In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word. — Cesare Pavese

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. — Cesare Pavese

We obtain things when we no longer want them. — Cesare Pavese

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites. — Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. — Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. — Cesare Pavese

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. — Cesare Pavese

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it. — Cesare Pavese

The real affliction of old age is remorse. — Cesare Pavese

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. — Cesare Pavese

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. — Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese

Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony. — Cesare Pavese

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people. — Cesare Pavese

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should. — Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. — Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. — Cesare Pavese

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever. — Cesare Pavese

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. — Cesare Pavese

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. — Cesare Pavese

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children . — Cesare Pavese

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company. — Cesare Pavese

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. — Cesare Pavese

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? — Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. — Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. — Cesare Pavese

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health. — Cesare Pavese

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . — Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. — Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. — Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions. — Cesare Pavese

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. — Cesare Pavese

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. — Cesare Pavese

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. — Cesare Pavese

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. — Cesare Pavese

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. — Cesare Pavese

Love is desire for knowledge. — Cesare Pavese

A corpse is what's left after waking too often. — Cesare Pavese

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young. — Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese

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. — Cesare Pavese

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's. — Cesare Pavese

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding. — Cesare Pavese

Not believing in anything is also a religion . — Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. — Cesare Pavese

There is something indecent in words . — Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments. — Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast. — Cesare Pavese

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments — Cesare Pavese

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. — Cesare Pavese

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong. — Cesare Pavese

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again. — Cesare Pavese

To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. — Cesare Pavese

We don't remember days,we remember moments. — Cesare Pavese

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission. — Cesare Pavese

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. — Cesare Pavese

All is the same
time has gone by
some day you come
some day you'll die
someone has died
long time ago. — Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. — Cesare Pavese

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust. — Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. — Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun. — Cesare Pavese

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun - Cesare Pavese

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But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting. — Cesare Pavese

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. — Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. — Cesare Pavese

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her. — Cesare Pavese

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. — Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. — Cesare Pavese

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference. — Cesare Pavese

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken. — Cesare Pavese

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. — Cesare Pavese

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition. — Cesare Pavese

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. — Cesare Pavese

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first? — Cesare Pavese

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself. — Cesare Pavese

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. — Cesare Pavese