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What we desire is not to poss...

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

Life is not a search for expe...

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

Perfect behaviour is born of ...

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

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We want Realism's wealth of e...

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 161 quotes

Here's the difficulty about s...

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 161 quotes

We care so little of other pe...

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

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What world lies beyond that s...

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

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Suicides are timid murderers....

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

If it is true that one gets u...

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

No matter how much a young ma...

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

All our "most sacred affectio...

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

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The only reason why we are al...

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 161 quotes

At great periods you have alw...

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

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But the real, tremendous trut...

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

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

A consoling thought: what mat...

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

Those philosophers who believ...

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

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The man of action is not the ...

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.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

The slowness of time, for a m...

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

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

Suffering is by no means a pr...

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

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To choose a hardship for ours...

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Cesare Pavese 161 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....