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Famous Cesare Pavese Quotes
Source: This Business of Living
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
Source: This Business of Living
“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
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Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950
“You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.”
Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950
Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950
“A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.”
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Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
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“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
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“There is something indecent in words .”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“Not believing in anything is also a religion .”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.”
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“Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.”
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“All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.”
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“I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.”
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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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“When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.”
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Source: This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950
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Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .”
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“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
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“But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.”
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Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950
“Love is desire for knowledge.”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
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“Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.”
Source: This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950