The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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