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.
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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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