Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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.
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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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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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