A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEFor women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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