Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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A 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.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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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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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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