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Cesare Pavese106 quotes“The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.”
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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.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The real affliction of old age is remorse.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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 PaveseCesare Pavese Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese 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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