Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESEWhat is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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 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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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