Why 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 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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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