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"24 Cesare Pavese Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 September 1908. Died: 27 August 1950 | Novelist | Poet | Writer | Translator |

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Believe Lies Living Art
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Days Moments Remember
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Far Fast Fears Light
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Adversity Met Hath Own
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Tongue Ready Rather Hand
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing Dropped End Life
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Given Lessons Taken
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

Always Between Body Clash
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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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.

Chain First Right Mistake
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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.

Because Misery Does Love
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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.

Alone Boy Company Grown
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cheapest Love Religions
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

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

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Find Look Many Must
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Begin Joy Only World
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Being Paid Luxury Starting
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Being Better Child Stops
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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.

Absolutely Every Feeling Free
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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.

Before Clever Enough Fall
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Forgotten Lies Life Memories
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists Bourgeois Monks State
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Cesare Pavese Quotes & Sayings