What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
CESARE PAVESEWhen writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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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 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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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