The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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