Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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