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 PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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