Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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