We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
CESARE PAVESELove has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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