When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEThe search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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 man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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