There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
CESARE PAVESEWhat world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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A corpse is what’s left after waking too often.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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