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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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the Earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering... Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first (Cesare Pavese Quotes)
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows (Cesare Pavese Quotes)