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Cesare Pavese Inspirational Quotes (94)

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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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