Love is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEThe 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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 only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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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 world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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