We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
CESARE PAVESEIt is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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