Cesare Pavese Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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.

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  Home, Mean, Knowing

• There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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  Life, Alive, Misery

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

• Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

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  Writing, Poetry, Making Love

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

• Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

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  Writing, Talking, Two

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.276, Transaction Publishers

• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

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  Desire, Want, Tests

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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