Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
CESARE PAVESEWe must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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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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Don’t mix wine and women.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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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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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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