The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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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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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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