We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Cesare Pavese
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Courage
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Life
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Wisdom
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.
Success
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Love
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Love
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Life
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.
Love
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Happiness
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Courage
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?
Life
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Wisdom
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Life
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Life
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Life
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Wisdom
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Wisdom
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Love
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Wisdom
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Wisdom
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Wisdom
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