One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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