Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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