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Cesare Pavese quotes

Italian Poet September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950

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Cesare Pavese quote: "Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before..."
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese
The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her? otherwise they feel betrayed. Cesare Pavese
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. Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "Love is the cheapest of religions."
Love is the cheapest of religions. Cesare Pavese
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning. Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of..."
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese
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? Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every..."
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade..."
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them. Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese quote: "There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with..."
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. Cesare Pavese
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. Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese

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