Cesare Pavese - Love Quotes

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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

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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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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.

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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

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