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Now that I've seen what war i...

Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

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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The slowness of time, for a m...

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

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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.

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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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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.

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But the real, tremendous trut...

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

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When a woman marries she belo...

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.

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The act the act must not be a...

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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War makes men barbarous becau...

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

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When a man mourns for someone...

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.

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Why so much innuendo, draped ...

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

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When we read, we are not look...

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

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Reality is a prison, where on...

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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People who don't know any bet...

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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I was happy enough; I knew th...

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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There is no finer revenge tha...

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.

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It is not that things happen ...

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

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There is something indecent i...

There is something indecent in words .

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A work settles nothing, just ...

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

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