Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
CESARE PAVESEI 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.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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