We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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 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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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