Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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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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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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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 only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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