But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
CESARE PAVESEBut here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
CESARE PAVESEThe man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
CESARE PAVESELove is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
CESARE PAVESEWhen writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
CESARE PAVESEThose philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
CESARE PAVESEHate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
CESARE PAVESEA dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESEWill power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEThe closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEOne stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESEThe world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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