Cesare Pavese quotes - page 2

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. (Cesare Pavese)

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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

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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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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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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

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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. (Cesare Pavese)

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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.

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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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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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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself. (Cesare Pavese)

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

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Love is desire for knowledge.

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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

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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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Cesare Pavese

Occupation: Italian Writer
Born: September 9, 1908
Died: August 27, 1950
Quotes count: 159
Wikipedia: Cesare Pavese

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