When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
CESARE PAVESEOne must look for one thing only, to find many.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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