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.
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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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