Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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