Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
About Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavesewas an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time.
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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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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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.
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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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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?
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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.
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator