Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEWhen you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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