Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEWe never remember days, only moments.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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