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“What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette”

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Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

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Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. Or at least to discuss it. There isn't enough discussion in the world.”

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Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 4, p. 25

“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Variant: The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950

“Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

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“Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.”

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La difficoltà di commettere suicidio sta in questo: è un atto di ambizione che si può commettere solo quando si sia superata ogni ambizione.
This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.”

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This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
Context: When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

“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.”

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“Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.”

Cesare Pavese

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.”

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Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XXVI, p. 148

“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”

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The Faber Book of Aphorisms

“We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.”

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This Business of Living (1935-1950)