We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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