But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
CESARE PAVESEThe face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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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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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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