To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
CESARE PAVESEWe want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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