Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
CESARE PAVESEMisfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The 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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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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