Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEWaiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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