Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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A 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.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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