It 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.
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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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