Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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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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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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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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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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