You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEOne 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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I 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.
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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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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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It 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.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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