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.
CESARE PAVESELiving is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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