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

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  Bored, Mercy

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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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• 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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• 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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• No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

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  Men, Thinking, Always Trying

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.131, 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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• 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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• What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

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  Lying, Ocean, Sea

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, 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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• Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

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  Home, Sleep, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.270, Transaction Publishers

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• We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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

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• Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

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  Perfect, Indifference, Behavior

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

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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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• 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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