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Cesare Pavese Quotes about Desire

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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Cesare Pavese
Desire, Want, Tests
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese
Women, Desire
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.119, Transaction Publishers

Love is desire for knowledge.

Cesare Pavese
Love Is, Desire, Desire For Knowledge
Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.245, Routledge

The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

Cesare Pavese
Fate, Sick, Desire
Diary entry for February 03, 1943. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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