We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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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 dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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