Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEFrom someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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