Cesare Pavese Quotes

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• We never remember days, only moments.

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  Time, Remember, Moments

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• We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

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  Avoiding

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers

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• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

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  Girl, Stupid, Loss

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

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• There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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  Bored, Mercy

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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. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

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  Dream, Travel, Home

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• The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

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  Joy, Alive, World

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Travel

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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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  Dream, Knowing, Creation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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  Life, Happiness, Success

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Love, Life, Friendship

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Ambition, Inferiority, Sin

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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• Lessons are not given, they are taken.

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  Taken, Lessons, Genocide

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.280, Transaction Publishers

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• You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Time, Years, Long

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.126, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Patience, Waiting, Occupation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers

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• One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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  Vision, Looks, One Thing

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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  Forgiveness, Stupidity, Forgiving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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• The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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  Depression, Sound, Gauges

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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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  Destiny, Fundamentals, Levels

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• We obtain things when we no longer want them.

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  Want

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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• The only joy in the world is to begin.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

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  Men, Practice, Fool

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.103, Transaction Publishers

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• Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

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  Women, Believe, Philosopher

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

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  Cry, Born, Dies

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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