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Life Quotes by Cesare Pavese
- 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…
- 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…
- The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
- There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
- 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…
- Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why…
- We do not remember days, we remember moments.
- Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
- The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
- The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
- If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
- Love is the cheapest of religions.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
- There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
- We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
- The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle