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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. Cesare Pavese Reality 626
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. Cesare Pavese Depression 212
We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese Life 144
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese Pain 130
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. Cesare Pavese Alone 122
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese Ambition 113
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. Cesare Pavese Suicide 102
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 Imagination 96
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese Memory 85
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese art 75
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese Artists 73
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese Travel 72
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese Love 67
One must look for one thing only, to find many. Cesare Pavese Uncategorized 64
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Cesare Pavese Manners 60
Love is the cheapest of religions. Cesare Pavese Love 59
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese Power 56
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. Cesare Pavese Forgotten 54
The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese Joy 47
Lessons are not given, they are taken. Cesare Pavese Given 46
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. Cesare Pavese Suicide 44
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 Infatuation 44
On ne se souvient pas des jours on se souvient des instants. Cesare Pavese French 41
From someone who doesnt want to share your destiny you should neither accept a cigarette Cesare Pavese Destiny 40
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. Cesare Pavese Life 37
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. Cesare Pavese Wealth 36
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be! Cesare Pavese Sin 36

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