We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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There is something indecent in words .
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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