We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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