Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEYou’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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The 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.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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