Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
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"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
Cesare Pavese Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
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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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"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
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"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
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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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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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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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"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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"We do not remember days we remember moments."
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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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"The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."
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"The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities."
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
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"Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world."
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"If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves."
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"The cadence of suffering has begun."
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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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"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 your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal"
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"The only joy in the world is to begin."
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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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