Cesare Pavese Quotes - Page 5

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• A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.

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  Decision, Action, Reason

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

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  Dark, Night, Old Wounds

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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  Real, Age, Affliction

  "The Moon and the Bonfire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter VIII, p. 49, 1950.

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• You don't remember days, you remember moments.

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  Remember, Moments

  Diary entry for July 28, 1940. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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• Love is desire for knowledge.

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  Love Is, Desire, Desire For Knowledge

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.245, Routledge

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• Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

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  Artist, Monk, States

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

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• Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

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  Smoking, Smoke

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

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  Suicide, Sadism, Murderer

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• Not believing in anything is also a religion .

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  Believe

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

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  Children, Looks, Fine

  Diary entry for September 06, 1945. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

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  Lying, Mean, Hiding

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• Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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  Power, Free Will, Single Relationship

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Scary, Feelings, Vacuums

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

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• To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.

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  Comfort, Done, Injustice

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.83, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Ivy, Innuendo

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

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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

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  Class, People, Behaviour

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• You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

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  Life, Young

  "The Beach: And A Great Fire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter 4, p. 27, 1941.

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• There is something indecent in words .

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  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.152, Transaction Publishers

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• I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

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  Blood, Understanding, World

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

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• I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.

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  Fun, Boys, Remember

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

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• 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.

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  Secret, Normal, Defense

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.117, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

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  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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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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  Travel, Home, Strangers And Friends

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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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  Grief, Heart, Night

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

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