It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
CESARE PAVESEEvery luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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