What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
CESARE PAVESEIt 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.
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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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