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Famous Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.”
Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
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“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
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Source: This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950
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Source: Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint
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“Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.”
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Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
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“We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”
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“We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.”
Source: This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950
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“Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.”
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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
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“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
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“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.”
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
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“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”
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“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
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“Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.”
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”
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“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”
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“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”
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“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”
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“Love is the cheapest of religions.”
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“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
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