A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
CESARE PAVESEA man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
CESARE PAVESEThe cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
CESARE PAVESEThere is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
CESARE PAVESEWoman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
CESARE PAVESEWhen you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
CESARE PAVESESuicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESEWhat world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
CESARE PAVESEWhen writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
CESARE PAVESEIt is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESEIt 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.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
CESARE PAVESEI thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
CESARE PAVESEIt is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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