A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEA dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESEYou cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEWhat is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
CESARE PAVESEYou’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESEThere is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
CESARE PAVESEArtists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEThe man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
CESARE PAVESEMisfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
CESARE PAVESEWhy does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
CESARE PAVESEFor women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
CESARE PAVESEIt 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.
CESARE PAVESEWe never remember days, only moments.
CESARE PAVESEAll our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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