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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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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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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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