Cesare Pavese Short Quotes

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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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

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When they're dealing with the dead, priests are always right.

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Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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One doesn't remember the days, but rather the fleeting seconds.

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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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Hate is always a clash between our own spirit and someone else's body.

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

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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It's having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

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But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

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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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Pity was always a waste of one's time.
Existence is terrible, pity won't change that.

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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.

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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

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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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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

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

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Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

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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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