Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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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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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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We never remember days, only moments.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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