Cesare Pavese Quotes and Sayings
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Lessons are not given, they are taken. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Love is the cheapest of religions. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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One must look for one thing only, to find many. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese | Refcard PDF ↑