Circumstances Quote by Cesare Pavese

“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.” quote by Cesare Pavese — Download Open image

“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

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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…

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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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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

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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

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