Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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